New Delhi : Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, who heads a Left Front government in the state, has alleged that Doordarshan and All India Radio refused to broadcast his Independence Day address unless he reshaped it. Doordarshan Kendra, Agartala has refuted ...

Three-time champions India and Australia are set to clash in their tournament-opener of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup scheduled to be held from January 13 to February 3 next year. India and Australia are clubbed together in Group B along with Zimbabwe and East Asia Pacific qualifier Papua New Guinea, an ICC release read on Wednesday. Defending champions West Indies will play hosts New Zealand on the opening day of 16-team tournament in the inaugural Group A day-night fixture at Bay ...

Soaked in patriotism, hundreds of Indians abroad on Tuesday marked the country's 71st Independence Day with the tricolour fluttering high and the national anthem reverberating at Indian missions across the world. IMAGE: The Empire State Building in New York lit up with Indian tricolor during the celebrations of 71st Independence Day of India. Photograph: @IndianEmbassyUS/Twitter Indians in countries like the United States, China, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Egypt, Israel and South ...

The future of the Indo-US partnership has never looked brighter, President Donald Trump said as he lauded the "irreplaceable contributions" of the Indian-American community in shaping the country. Trump in his message to the India Day parade in Chicago to ...

Chief selector MSK Prasad on Monday said the core of the Indian cricket team for the 2019 World Cup will be identified in the next four to five months through a rotation policy and they have a plan for MS Dhoni too. Pacers Mohammed Shami and Umesh Yadav along ...

In his first address to the nation, on the eve of 71st Independence Day, President Ram Nath Kovind hailed the government’s demonetisation and GST decision. Please read the full speech HERE IMAGE: President Ram Nath Kovind addresses the nation on the eve of 71st Independence Day.Photograph: Press Information Bureau President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday pitched for a partnership between citizens and the government to create a New India by 2022 that is a “compassionate ...

India today gifted 30 ambulances and six buses to Nepalese hospitals, charitable organisations and educational institutions on the occasion of its 71st Independence Day. India's Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri handed over the keys of the vehicles to ...

'When both teams play with equal intensity, the matches will be very close and so will the series' IMAGE: India's captain Virat Kohli celebrates with his teammates after they won the third Test match against Sri Lanka on Monday. None of the three Test matches in this series went into the fifth day. Photograph: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters India's first ever overseas whitewash came against a below-par Sri Lanka side in a lopsided series but skipper Virat Kohli doesn't want to read into ...

Dhawan, Pujara, Ashwin, Jadeja shone, but Pandya is the standout performer in the Sri Lanka series for Rediff.com's Harish Kotian. World No 1 India showed their prowess as they hammered Sri Lanka by an innings and 171 runs in the third and final Test to record a historic 3-0 clean sweep, in Pallekele, on Monday, August 14. This was India's eighth series win a row, a run which incidentally began in Sri Lanka two years ago when India triumphed 2-1 in 2015. The 2017 series saw the inexperienced ...